W3C Workshop on Push Technology

September 8-9, 1997
Boston - USA

At this workshop, there was significant enthusiasm for the following
aspects of push technology :

Rich descriptions of web content for the purpose of "push"
distribution

HTTP protocol enhancements to facilitate "push" distribution

Multicast protocols for "push" distribution

W3C Submissions such as CDF and DRP were
presented. Discussion included the relationship of these proposals to ongoing
work in W3C and elsewhere. In particular, the workshop participants began to
evaluate the use of technology in development in W3C's Metadata Activity, i.e. RDF, for description of collections of web
content.

Note that W3C Workshops do not have direct impact on the status of
Submissions. The mechanism for the outcome of a W3C Workshop to turn into a
W3C Activity is for a Briefing Package to be drafted, circulated to the W3C
Advisory Committee, and approved.

The discussion of deployment of W3C resources and the disposition of the
proposals hpresented are archived on the www-push
mailing list.